I'm Leavin' You
A mindmap covering the main features of Howlin' Wolf's "I'm Leavin' You". Particularly useful revision for the extended questions. Please feel free to ask questions/suggest improvements :)
- Created by: Nora
- Created on: 03-02-13 15:28
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- I'm Leavin' You
- Performing Forces
- Voice gas a raw quality
- Vocal line mainly within middle range (overall a minor 10th)
- Mainly syllabic
- Slides/Bends and half spoken inflections
- Wordless vocalising
- Harmonica used in guitar solo
- Rhythm guitar plays a shuffle riff
- Lead guitar opens with a Blues introductory figure
- Dialogue with voice in monophonic 'licks'
- Double-stopped thirds
- Slides and bends
- Piano 'comps'
- Bass guitar plays root in swung quavers
- Drums play a shuffle rhythm accenting beats 2 and 4
- Texture
- Mostly homophonic in verses
- Chordal accompaniment
- Dialogue between Voice and Lead Guitar
- 'Stop' time textures (first three bars of verses 2, 3, 5 and 6)
- Chord on first beat and a triplet fill on the fourth
- Structure
- 6 choruses
- 12 bar blues
- Introduction and 'repeat and fade' coda
- Verse 4: guitar solo
- Tonality
- No modulations
- G major
- Modal inflections in the 'blue' notes
- Harmony
- Decorated by improvised 7ths and 9ths
- Dominant prepares ear for return to tonic
- 7ths do not have a cadential function
- Standard 12 bar blues in G
- Bar 9: D7
- Bars 7-8: G7
- Bars 5-6: C9
- Bars 1-4: G7
- Bars 5-6: C9
- Bar 10: C9
- Bar 11: G7
- Bar 12: Db-D9
- Bar 11: G7
- Bars 7-8: G7
- Bar 9: D7
- Melody
- Guitar lines are more complex using the blues scale
- Pentatonic shapes
- Dialogue between vocal and lead guitar
- Frequent 'blue' notes
- Slides and pitch bends in guitar and vocal
- 1 bar vocal phrases (many begin on D and work downwards)
- Rhythm and Metre
- Semiquaver grouping ends with scotch snap
- Triplets
- Snare drum 'backbeats' on beats 2 and 4
- 4/4 time with 'shuffle' rhythm
- Syncopation
- Performing Forces
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